Winter Wanderings
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- Comment on Winter is coming by MelI don't know. I intentionally work in ways not related to my studies. Also foreign school loans what the ballllllllllls. Also kinda why jobs = good idea. But then I'm afraid I'll never go back to the schooling...Mel
- Comment on Winter is coming by Fortune Cellwhich one do you LIKE more? academia or legit work?Fortune Cell
- Comment on Winter is coming by VendavalSounds like someone hasn't been stabbed in a while...Vendaval
- Comment on Winter is coming by POSOCWelcome! This place is not as scary as it may appear.POSOC
- Comment on Winter is coming by MelSo uh, grad school. >>Applied degree => job? >>Pure degree => go on / reclass to PhD? Wat do. Math, btw. >>ASKING THE INTERNET TO SOLVE MY LIFE. >>INCAPABLE OF MAKING DECISIONS.Mel
- Comment on Winter is coming by JadestoneHello hello! Welcome for coming!Jadestone
- Comment on Winter is coming by Rosebud2*lurks* *delurks* Hi. Eheheh. Um... please don't hurt me?Rosebud2
- Comment on Winter is coming by JadestoneWasn't me either, but yes, they did stop autodelete.Jadestone
- Comment on Winter is coming by MelWasn't me, but, did they stop autodeleting?Mel
- Comment on Winter is coming by Ebethdear whoever i gave my KoL account to i went to get back in because i was curious and accidentally password change because i'm a dumb if you still use it, let me know and i'll give you the password. i think i'm just gonna make a new character anywayEbeth
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Jadestone | January 28, 2011 at 10:24 pm
D’awww Moses. And uh. Frankie.
Muselover- I’d say go… if you’re worried about being too freaked out by the graphic-ness, close your eyes when it starts, and have you parent poke you when it’s done or something? Or sit on the edge row and leave for bits?
I haven’t seen it but I’ve never really had a problem with gore, so I may not be the best person to ask.
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Beavo | January 29, 2011 at 1:07 am
Oh hi everyone.
So I’m gonna actually make an attempt to not ignore you guys now, I hope that’s okay with everyone.
Feel free to harass me on Facebook into getting online.
Muselover- I saw it, I’m squeamish about graphic stuff and it didn’t show much, he just went into great detail about how it felt and what it looked like. I just put my earphones in and read and tried to ignore it until it was over. It’s only like, a couple minutes. And it’s not like omg lol here’s my torn and bloody arm.
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muselover | January 29, 2011 at 10:39 am
All right, thanks. I might see it today.
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Fortune Cell | January 29, 2011 at 8:18 am
Sooo I dropped out of OSU and moved to Canada (after some issues at the border) and now I’m going to college here and living with my boyfriend. Which most of you folks probably know, but I figured it was probably update time.
Anyway, everything went better than expected! He is the best roommate I’ve had (I’ve had four before him) and there have been virtually zero issues. He’s gonna be gone today and maybe tonight for a fencing thing and party a couple hours away, where he went to undergrad. Starting in February I’m going to try and figure out what I’m doing next. Hopefully transferring to U of T or another school. I applied to them before I knew I’d be leaving OSU and everything, so I have to update my applications and it’s just dumb life stuff that has to be done. Also, I don’t really have any money. Well, I do. I have a fair bit in a US Bank account, but stupid US Bank won’t let me transfer money to my TD (Canada) account without going to a US Bank in person. And I guess we could do the drive to fucking Buffalo, but that sounds annoying as heck. So right now I’m trying to mess with paypal and seeing if that will work. I guess I’ll also send checks home to my mom to send to me. I’m not in dire straights or anything. The dude can support us nicely without any worries, and I don’t really have any major expenses. I have a credit card as well, but it’s a 3% tax every time I use it out of the country. Anyway now things are MUCH NICER. And I get to spend the day cooking and playing Mario Galaxy and finishing up Sherlock and BUFFY BUFFY BUFFY because he just doesn’t appreciate her.
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Mel | January 29, 2011 at 8:45 am
Warning: pointless rant. Half of y’all have probably gotten a near-identical rant over AIM or something.
Teal Deer: I’m shit at people skills and hate the world except not really because I’m badass enough to go it alone and also I am like fucking poor.
Okay so I think the only people with shitter social skills than mine, have Assburger’s. I think I am literally the worst at making friends. Or everyone is just too lame to be mah homay. Let’s go with that last one.
Seriously, though. I have found one other BS here. It might seem trivial but for fuck’s sake I go to an engineering school, I’m usually surrounded by people who (I never before realized) are nerdy. Our version of parties is “let’s get fucking drunk and do math.”
But here it’s all clubs (dude I want to go out with people to attempt this friend-making thing, but I cannot afford a cover charge and drinksdrinksdrinks and of course food because I’m not a fucking idiot). And drinking like Americans.
I try to talk to people in my class (because they at least can manage German, which is a huuuuge plus) but I think they think I’m weird. One of my at-home biffles says I’m shit at body language though. That might be it. It might be the dick jokes but dear god he was talking about comparative shoe sizes what the shit did he expect? We had class in a Cafe yesterday. It didn’t fucking help that, when I came back from the bathroom, I found the teacher using my assignment as the answer guide. In front of everyone. That is the most awkward thing. It’s like they were all staring at me like DAMN YOU FOR KNOWING THINGS. I just want to hide ;_;
Seriously though. Half the girls here are going to Budapest for the weekend. They don’t even like one another how does this work? They spend their time telling me about how they hate everyone and Shallow Bitches and What A Slut and I Can’t Stand Her and She’s Fat. And I’m like, what do I even say to that? They probably all talk about how I’m weird and quiet and lame or something. But I’m like “mm that’s nice,” when I’m really thinking “oh my god what the shitcunts is wrong with all of you just get over it or hang out with people you actually like.”
Because they’re all like obsessed with scrapbook catchphrases like “making memories” and “once-in-a-lifetime ___” Like if they pretend hard enough at being happy and having a good time, they will have had a good time. Like if they show you pictures of these supposed good times, they will have had a good time. Newsflash, if you have time to take more than the obligatory “I was here with these people” photo, you’re probably not having a good time. Pictures do not equal good memories, they’re just constructs. It’s just fooling yourself because that’s what people do. Like are they even trying? Why, how, I don’t fucking even.
Unless this sort of thing is actually fun. If so someone please tell me so I don’t seem like the ornery bitch lovechild of Ayn Rand and Holden Caulfield (phonies! second-handers!).
My weekend trips are basically things like Go To Munich Alone When It’s Warmer And Have All The Beer And Go To Neuschwanstein. Because seriously? Things are so much easier when people don’t expect you to have conversations with strangers for them. Or translate things for them. I am not even that good. What is this I don’t even. But seriously, you have to be at least kind-of able to GUESS what people are saying even if you don’t know the language, right? Like “you can sit here because the seats weren’t sold” and “through that door” and “we need to take your jackets” and “stand up.” They use HAND MOTIONS FOR CHRISSAKE.
Anyway I am still trying to find out how people make friends. Without seeming lame. Or like you’re trying to get in their pants. Or like you’re unceremoniously inviting yourself places. Preferably friends who can manage the language here. And like museums and concerts. This should not be difficult but I swear I am freaking retarded or creepy or hideous or something. Or I come off as being as judgmental as this post makes me sound. Which I kind-of am. But y’know. I’m a math major, I’m allowed to do these things, or so I tell myself xD
Balls.
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Fiddler | January 29, 2011 at 10:31 am
Mel~ *hug* No, going around places with people you don’t like and taking lots of stupid “hahahahaha look at all the fun we’re having!!!!!!!111″ pictures is not fun. Unless you’re into that, which I guess some people are, which is why it’s so prevalent. But yeah, it’s not like actual fun.
Making friends oh my god. I have no idea. I mean, I have some friends, but, like, I don’t even know how I got to be friends with them. However, most of the people I talk to now I met after I was 10, so these aren’t friends that we started out like “you wanna play tag? OKAY WE’RE BESTIES NOW!!” like little kids make friends. I totally wish I could still make friends like that. But, y’know, with people my age, not munchkins. I can still make friends with munchkins that way. (Just a note, that sounded totally creepy. I’m not a pedophile guys, I’m really not.)
Uhm, last friend I made that I can actually think of was this summer, Bekah. If I recall the first thing I actually said to her was “so what made you decide to gauge your ears?” because I was honestly wondering. Then we started talking about music and discovered we both liked Monsters of Folk and then were like THIS IS AWESOME LET’S BE FRIENDS FOREVER. Because of more than just that music, but yeah. So, um, find people who won’t be weirded out by a totally random question as their first impression of you and you’ll be on the path to friend-making.
If there aren’t any around then just go be awesome by yourself I guess.
And just a note, taking friend-making advice from me probably isn’t a great idea either. I’m pretty lame at it.
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axa | January 29, 2011 at 11:24 am
julia– YAY that is all exciting and wonderful. well not about the monies, but you know. also one of the recipe websites you posted had a really good looking spaghetti sauce that i might use tonight haha SO THANKS
BUT YAY FOR EVERYTHING
mel – yeah it’s definitely not you. I don’t understand haw everyone at school already has these seemingly FOREVER AND EVER friendships. what the hell? when did that happen? how is friendship formed?! it’s not like i have wildly unique interests or something, and the only people i could find who kind of liked the same things as me had no fuckin sense of humor aka NO DICK JOKES EITHER. WHAT IS THAT. god i don’t know.
and i also hate the constant fb picture stuff. UGH GOD. i can’t really say anything helpful other than yeah i know what you mean. i like doing stuff by myself too. uggghh
fern — you like monsters of folk?! okay so i haven’t listened to them as much BUT i am a big fan of conor oberst who is in there…ANYWAY, COOL
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Mel | January 29, 2011 at 11:40 am
Julia: Fuck banks. That is all. <3
Fiddlah: Thanks :3 Yeah, I don't get it. This weird superficial friendship thing. Superficial as in light and surface-y. Not based-on-looks-y. I don't know.
Axa: Heh, seriously who the shit doesn't like dick jokes? I found a Dirty German book and I was like "ANALRITTER (literally: anal knight) THIS IS THE BEST WORD." And my roomies were like "YOU SICK FUCK."
Fiddlah+Axa: re: Photos: Dude I swear people spend more time taking pictures than actually doing things at events.
Also Fiddlah. All I can think of is Roots when I read your name. I's Fiddlah. You's Tobeh. KUNTAAAA. KUNTA KIIIIINTE.
FUCKING FUN-ASS UPDATE.
Okay.
So.
Toilet paper.
The previous tenants left two rolls behind.
Cool.
So I got a cheap 10-pack at the store a week ago.
Mentioned it to the roomies, figured one of them would just get it next time.
Not a big deal.
Sometimes go in the bathroom and wonder where the roll is.
(We don't have a holder, the roll just sits on top of the tank).
Did that maybe ten minutes ago.
Mysteriously gone.
But was nearly full earlier today.
Confused.
Realize.
My fucking annoying I HAVE ADD AND HAPPY PILLS AND IT'S TWO AM BUT I'M JUST GOING TO BARGE INTO Y'ALL'S ROOM BECAUSE I CAN'T BEAR TO BE ALONE RIGHT NOW roomie.
Cries on Skype for a minimum of three hours each night.
(I shit you not. This might even be an understatement).
She's been crying at her boyfriend for the last few hours.
Cunt buy your own goddamn tissues.
Sorry, but much venting has to take place.
Like, I can understand the occasional nose-blowing.
But this?
Three of us live here, 5 rolls in under two weeks?
No fucking way.
Fuck.
How do I even address this?
Like.
She has no concept of budgeting or being a fucking adult.
I should cut her off of the Qtips.
She always asks me for them after she showers.
The second or third time she asked if it was okay.
"For now, whatever, I figure you'll just get your own in the near future, right?"
Yup.
Fucking obvious as fuck hint right?
Apparently fucking not.
I am not here to solve her bullshit problems.
(She has already asked me to make a budget for her, but I avoided that successfully).
God how do I make this fucking STOP.
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Mel | January 29, 2011 at 11:55 am
LOL THEY BROKE UP.
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muselover | January 29, 2011 at 12:02 pm
The following conversation is why I don’t like voice chat in online multiplayer.
Me: So, should I build a trench here?
Opponent: Shut up!
Someone else on opponent’s end: What?
O: No, I’m playing with voice chat on, and this guy won’t shut up!
SEOOE: Really? (into microphone) You’re a wiener!
M: (laughs)
SEOOE: How many wieners do you have in your mouth? Seven?
M: Stop being a dick.
SEOOE: Did you hear that? He said, “stop being a dick.” How many dicks do you have in your mouth?
M: Seriously, stop.
SEOOE: (to O) Wait, he can hear everything I’m saying?
M: Yeah.
SEOOE: (pause)
OPPONENT HAS LEFT THE GAME
Okay, I guess that had a happy ending.
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Captain Fantastic | January 29, 2011 at 12:03 pm
You Yanks are all fucking mental. Ye need tae drink more, alcohol fixes everything. ADD? Get fucking shitfaced.
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Ebeth | January 29, 2011 at 3:47 pm
livsy – I LOVE YOU THEY ARE CUNTS YOU DON’T NEED TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM
seriously though my new friendship strategy since going to college has been “be myself, if they can’t deal with it fuck them”
also everybody likes dick jokes some people just can’t admit it
part of making friends is just being in the right places. i meet new people through other geeks who i met through other geeks etc. i operate in basically Geek Circles. because the rest of the world isn’t really worth it
also lol breakup
liv seriously you should come study a broad in ohio (hint it’s me). drag van and schiavo, we’ll have awesometimes
i like pictures! but totally agreed, when i am having the most fun i forget about pictures. unless something is super pretty and/or awesome and i am like “NEED PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE TO BACK THIS STORY” or, yeah, if i’m bored.
fridgey – bad idea actually, apparently ADD meds go horribly with alcohol. i have a friend who has legitimately bad ADD (like, a rare case where i’m straight-up like “yeah, she needs those meds”) and apparently she had some really bad reactions to alcohol so now she has to drink spritzer while we drink beer
it is very sad.
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Captain Fantastic | January 30, 2011 at 6:57 am
Obviously, ADD medication is basically 10 different strands of meth and speed. People take adderall and ritalin for the high, for chrissakes. The problem is that ADD is an idiotic medicalization of a nonmedical problem- it’s a psychological issue, not a psychiatric one. People should stop taking meds for it and just learn to fucking deal with it.
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Ebeth | January 30, 2011 at 11:29 am
i mean generally i’d agree with you, but i’ve seen her off her meds and she really does need them to focus on -anything.- and maybe that’s a case of being addicted? i don’t know, i didn’t meet her until high school so i don’t know how she was before. but in any case she needs the meds and so unfortunately no alcohol for her
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Mel | January 30, 2011 at 10:38 am
Eboo- YOU UNDERSTAND MAH PAIN. Etc. Dude I will get there. But later so I can also kidnap Jadey and Lizzie and Grant. And there will be much drunkenness. Oh dude I am going to be driving fucking EVERYWHERE when I get back, it’s going to be so obnoxious. Blasty shitty music and everything.
Fridgey / O Captain My Captain- Fucking agreed. I know she has Aderall. Don’t recognize the other happy pills. But for some reason I attract mentally unstable people. Like, half the people I know in college are on happy pills now. And they’re way fucking annoying because of it. Clearly the doctor should’ve prescribed Growing A Pair.
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Ebeth | January 30, 2011 at 11:33 am
dude YES. next year, you, me, jadey, lizzie, grant, schiavo, van, PARTY AT MAH HOUSE. if anyone is going on college visits next year, you pretend to be/legitimately be interested in OSU and line up visits
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Mel | January 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Fuck yes. Dude, when I get back I will be in serious need of getting my nerd on.
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Captain Fantastic | January 30, 2011 at 1:52 pm
New term starts tomorrow. with my first lecture in International Organisations at 12am. Looking forward to it, hopefully it will be better than last term’s course.
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Lizzie | January 30, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Do you mean 12pm? Or what kind of wacked-out schedule are you on?
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Captain Fantastic | January 30, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Woops, aye, that’s midday, nae midnight.
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muselover | January 31, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Yaoi fangirls FMA fangirls=a group of girls in my grade who just happen to be some pf my best friends. I manage to live with it.
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Vendaval | January 31, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Oh we do all of our yaoi in-house around here.
https://freshmuseblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/yaoi-rrr/7
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muselover | January 31, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Oh yes, I know. I now refudiate that thread.
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Vendaval | January 31, 2011 at 9:46 pm
what the fuck does ‘refudiate’ mean?
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muselover | February 1, 2011 at 5:52 am
“Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.” – Sarah Palin
What I meant was that I needed to cleanse my mind after reading that thread. At least I didn’t get too far…
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Ebeth | January 31, 2011 at 9:34 pm
that thread is the best thread
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penguini | February 1, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I have the stencils for the shirt /almost/ made AND the shirt, I just haven’t combined the two. Maybe I’ll do that today? (nah)
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Captain Fantastic | February 1, 2011 at 9:36 am
So fucking rough. Burns supper, and then alcohol and kung fu movies until 6am. Haggis, btw, is absolutely amazing.
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Vendaval | February 1, 2011 at 11:10 pm
What does haggis taste like? Sheep?
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Captain Fantastic | February 2, 2011 at 7:01 am
Haggis is basically the savoury parts of the animal – liver, heart, so forth – cut up into wee bits and boiled in the sheep’s actual stomach, which retains all the spices and makes it incredibly tasty. Can’t really say what it tastes like- it tastes like haggis. Make it properly, with the actual stomach and all that. Have it with mashed potatoes (mix up some black pudding in the mash), honey roasted parsnips, mashed up turnips and Scotch broth (chicken bits, lentils, turnips, carrots, potatoes and any other random veg) for a starter and you have yourself a relatively cheap and excellent group meal.
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muselover | February 2, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I’ll have to try it when we travel the world this spring/summer. Where can you get it?
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Vendaval | February 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm
It’s famously Scottish.
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Captain Fantastic | February 2, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Scotland, obviously, but probably anywhere else that has a strong Scottish cultural migrant presence. Nova Scotia, New Zealand, etc.
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muselover | February 8, 2011 at 6:00 am
Sweet! I’m going to New Zealand.
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Kiki the Great | February 1, 2011 at 8:04 pm
I TEND TO FORGET ABOUT THIS PLACE FOR LIKE TWO MONTHS AT A TIME AND I END UP FEELING REALLY BAD.
SO HERE IS AN UPDATE ON THE LIFE OF KIKI.
Sso Tumblr is kind of my home as of now and me and Beavo often have remeniscence tiems which is fun. and Penty just recently discovered by blog through pure coincidence the other day, which was pretty awesome.
I don’t know if you know this but I am a huge Whovian now (you should see my room, I have somehow accumulated shelves of memorabilia in less than six months) and also a huge fan of Sherlock, Misfits, Boosh, Supernatural, Nerdfighteria, etc etc. My nerd quotient has pretty much increased exponentially in recent months.
Also I am now in high school (you guys are probably like, FINALLY) and that’s going pretty well. Got all A’s on my exams, hooray!
SO. My Tumblr is http://stop-its-ginger-time.tumblr.com and that’s where you can find most of my fandom geekery, and I’ll try my best to lurk on here more often.
Because I love you and I miss you.
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Kagcomix | February 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Fortune Cell- Are you in T.O. right now? Enjoying the snow? The “snowpocalips” or whatever they’re calling it. (which is really just a steady, light snowfall). Just saying hi.
Hi guys. I never come on here anymore because I’m holed up in my room watching 7th Heaven reruns. I’m only half joking. Mostly I’m just worrying about how to generate 7 good paintings in time to ship them off to Nova Scotia before the end of the month. I’m in the process of applying to art colleges. I somehow managed to get an early acceptance to one based on my portfolio. So that was nice. But still lots of stress & tears and “HolyfuckI havetofinishthispaintingsoIcanstartonhtenext”
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Fortune Cell | February 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Yeah, I’ll have been here three weeks tomorrow. BF and I have basically been cooped up all day because of snowpocalypse, which I’m pretty sure was mostly media-generated.
And clearly you should just do 7 portraits of the 7th Heaven kids.
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Mel | February 3, 2011 at 7:34 am
You should do 7 portraits of the 7th Heaven kids in 7 compromising positions.
[spoilers? though it's been off the air for like forever so fuck it]
That show was a laugh. I’ve only ever seen a few re-run episodes. But the best one was probably the one in which one of the kids and his girlfriend try to announce to their parents that they are GOING TO HAVE SEX MATURELY OKAY? Infinite lulz.
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Kagcomix | February 3, 2011 at 5:19 pm
How right you are.
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Mel | February 4, 2011 at 7:10 am
>>Trying to pick up things I need at store.
>>Carry on proper German conversation with hot clerk.
>>Roomie uses English Words.
>>It’s super effective!
>>Mel’s cover is blown.
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Captain Fantastic | February 4, 2011 at 8:01 am
Why is there a thread I can’t get into?
CURIOUSITY DRIVING ME MAD!
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muselover | February 8, 2011 at 6:04 am
WHY THE HELL IS EVERYONE MAKING A BIG DEAL ABOUT 127 HOURS??? Seriously, every movie critic in the world expressed how gory and gruesome the amputation scene was. I saw it on Saturday, and it was NOT THAT BAD. Yes, it was realistic. Yes, it was a difficult scene to watch. However, it was not the most graphic violence in recent memory. Beavo, thank you for your suggestion. It was a fantastic movie.
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Captain Fantastic | February 8, 2011 at 8:55 am
Mel is currently enjoying Buckfast wine and polish beer in casa Fantastic.
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Captain Fantastic | February 8, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I just fingerfucked Mel. Yaldi!
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Ebeth | February 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm
dear liv,
standards?
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Mel | February 12, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Dear Ebeth,
1. For the picture, I love you for always :3
2. I’m so far above and beyond everyone’s league I would never get any action if I had standards.
3. Just being courteous, y’know.
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Frigid-fucking-Symphony | February 12, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Excuse me, but I am a highly sought after commodity.
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POSOC | February 12, 2011 at 11:48 pm
As much as Eccleston?
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Mel | February 13, 2011 at 10:29 am
See? I toooold you. Hilarious, no?
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Fiddler | February 9, 2011 at 8:52 am
Were you wearing leiderhosen?
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Mel | February 12, 2011 at 6:23 am
I just got back from visiting Fridgey and Paul! It’s like we’re now friends in real life or something.
They are very bad influences and now I need cigarettes and bagpipes to live.
Whatever. I have Manner, I can do anything.
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Mel | February 12, 2011 at 7:29 am
Oh my fucking god the people in my building are all DOING THEIR LAUNDRY and we’re not allowed to do it on Sundays and fucking shitcunts I have almost nothing to wear, I do not want to show up for the first day of proper classes in a wifebeater, shorts, and backseam pantyhose. I will look like a fucking moron. But wearing sandals to the grocery store => can’t feel feet.
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Fiddler | February 12, 2011 at 8:09 am
Bagpipes are totally crucial to survival.
Why can’t you do laundry on Sundays? Are there any laundromats open on Sundays?
I’m sure you could pull off the outfit described, but what with it being cold and all you might freeze.
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Mel | February 12, 2011 at 8:34 am
Everything’s closed on Sundays. Except the tourist attractions, music venues, and Manner store. And this one Billa, thank all that is holy and good.
I don’t have /class/ Monday, but I do have work (fuck yeah having employment again) so that’s all sorts of awkward. I really should’ve done my other laundry before leaving, but I had to sit around my house coughing and feeling bad for myself. It was important.
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muselover | February 13, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Yo Fridgey! People over at the other MB are missing you! They’re on the Rants and Plaints thread, do you think you can say hi?
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Captain Fantastic | February 13, 2011 at 5:41 pm
So what, so I can briefly indulge in condescension before getting too frustrated and bored with the whole process the moment someone starts telling what a bad person I am for drinking? Eh, no thanks.
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muselover | February 14, 2011 at 9:07 am
Actually, people like me were missing your constructive arguments of your religious views, or lack thereof. And who exactly said you were a bad person for drinking? *checks various threads Fridgey posted on* Oh yeah, that’s who. Still, you taught me several valuable lessons in debating, by letting me see the flaws in my arguments, and thus making me able to correct them. Maybe you could just go say hi to them, let them know you still exist? And then leave when they call you a bad person for drinking.
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Mel | February 14, 2011 at 9:08 am
Don’t encourage him.
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muselover | February 14, 2011 at 9:22 am
Yeah, you’re probably right. His personality does fit much better in this setting than in the other MuseBlog’s.
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Mel | February 14, 2011 at 9:12 am
So first day of classes! I had no classes. So I had work-study. Which was awesome in that I get paid. But non-awesome in that I had to do work. And be awake. Mostly it was the awake thing that’s killing me. And my boss is the most adorably awkward person, he keeps stammering and doesn’t know if he should use German or English no matter how many times I tell him I don’t care.
Anyway, not the first time I’ve worked in a library, but textbook-libraries are something new. Not quite as fun as medical libraries. At least those were properly informative. I swear, by the end of the semestre, I’ll have everyone ever’s reading done. It’s something to do during the monotony of pressing buttons.
But seriously, I was doing philosophy classes today and there is nothing more funny than a philosopher explaining math like he knows something. And to think, the Tractatus was very nearly the second philosophy book ever to make me not want to purge the bastards. Nearly.
(PS Amanda if you still come here I love you for always in spite of your major, promises)
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Mel | February 14, 2011 at 9:36 am
Oh my god I get back to the apartment and suddenly we are labeling our food? And my psycho roomie’s bitching about it and yelling at me, telling me I’m useless for not knowing how to cook chicken. And then I’m explaining to her how to tell if eggs have gone bad, and she spills a giant pot of water on me.
One day I am going to strangle her in her sleep. For now I’m hair-drying my clothing.
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Fiddler | February 14, 2011 at 7:52 pm
“That’s a cool shirt.”
“Thanks. It’s got a butt-ruffle!”
“I see that. Rebecca would look good in that shirt…”
“How did I see this coming?”
“GIVE ME YOUR SHIRT.”
“NO!”
“But I’m your brother, I should be able to steal your clothes!”
“NO!”
“GIVE ME YOUR SHIRT!”
Until this day my dad didn’t understand why Neil and I call ourselves siblings. I think he has a vague idea now.
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Fiddler | February 15, 2011 at 2:42 pm
So the first college application is in the mail. I’m allowing myself a little bit of time before I panic more about the second one. Then I’ll panic more about only applying to two colleges.
Thankfully there are still ships hiring for deckhand positions for the summer, so there’s hope yet. Hopefully.
Listening to the Grateful Dead and thinking about my upcoming road trip and wishing it was summer.
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Mel | February 16, 2011 at 7:23 am
Fiddlah- Do not worry you are the best, and if I could slack off and not do shit with my life and get into a ranked school, you’ll get in everywhere. Promise <3
PS, come to Lehigh if you're doing something sciencey. Or just want to be cool.
So that bitch ate my goddamn Nutella. I'mma cut her. Seriously, though. What the shitfuck. Sorry I keep ranting here, it's been shitty outside and I've been putting my homework off so you all get to deal with my life.
Mmk, so basically, fucking rich kids who haven't got a fucking clue. Yes I know some of you are lucky enough to have rich families, but this is not directed at you because you guys know how to deal with real life like fucking adults. Hell, my cool roomie is rich as fuck but she can handle herself because she's a human. My psycho roomie, not so much.
I mean, it's bad enough that she's got a weekly allowance that's 30% larger than my monthy budget (which, by the way, does not consist of my parents' money, though they have offered). And then she's three weeks over that and wondering why her dad is getting annoyed with her. Why he keeps funding her idiocy, I'll never know.
No matter how many times sane roomie (let's call her Amelia, because she looks just like this other girl I know named Amelia) and I politely ask Bitch to get things for the house (dish soap, toilet paper, etc), she doesn't.
"Oh, okay, yeah, I'll get it now."
Leaves.
Comes back.
"Oh, sorry, my ADHD kicked in and I ended up going for Sachertorte."
Like, what the fuck. Get a fucking grip on yourself. Amelia and I have long since agreed that she's just incapable of acting maturely and is clinging to bullshit diagnoses so that she doesn't have to. Bleargh.
She eats our food, lots. Mostly Amelia's, because she has more, and I get the dairy products with all the fat in them. And she hates half the things I eat anyway. And yells at me for having the audacity to eat them around her. Dude I don't give you shit about seafood, which smells WAY MORE DISGUSTING than hard-boiled eggs. And we tell her about the food-eating and she promises to get replacements and it never happens.
That, and it's straight-up rude, she eats it because she doesn't want to walk to the grocery store. Which is a little over a block away. Waiting for the pedestrian crossing light to turn green takes longer than it does to make the actual journey. She's either too SAD (as in the disorder) or tired, or too much of a cunt. Thing is, we have extra (unopened) food that sits around for days when we don't want to walk there. And then we have to eat it because it's usually stuff that goes bad after opened.
She also thought that you didn't have to refrigerate meat-raviolis. Facepalm. And she really needs to wash her fucking dishes. "I'll do it when I'm feeling less depressed, okay?" She is a super-aggressive person. I am passive and obliging. Bah.
Anyway, no concept of consideration or real life. Rich kid on daddy's allowance, first time out of the house, truly alone. So instead of deciding that this means to man up, she whines and clings. And makes dumb fake friends and becomes convinced that her sexploits are something to brag about (she has a boyfriend at home) and somehow will make me give a damn about her. Which, if I did, I could probably put her through adulthood boot camp no problem. But her life is not my concern so I'll help her pretend that it's all fine and dandy because the alternative is having my life more bothered than it already is. And fuck that noise.
And there's the fact that she's personally insulted that the population of the capital city of a German-speaking country speaks German. And regards me as her personal translator. It's the worst when it's for things like COOKING INSTRUCTIONS. You don't even need instructions, you heat it until it looks edible.
The best part, though, is that she's a psych major. And she complains about how dumb and egotistical psych majors are. It's hilarious, and she doesn't even realize why, which makes it better. And she tells me about her schoolwork as though it's something to be proud of? Please that is like freshmen bragging to me about their Calc 1 grades.
-raises eyebrow-
"Mm, yeah, very impressive."
-she goes on about her ZOMG DEEP BRILLIANT analysis of like Pavlov's fucking testicles or something-
Actually, I lied. The best part is that she keeps making fun of me for being poor.
"Oh, you got work study? You must be poor as fuck."
"Pretty much, yeah."
"Haha, that's so funny, I don't even get financial aid from my school."
"Mm, lucky you, I guess."
"Oh, so is that why you're always weird with like your groceries and food and shit."
"Well, I do have to pay for them."
"Hahaha, you're like such a poor person, you know? Like, who cares if you waste a bit, y'know?"
"Mm."
"Man, I should talk to my dad, I want to like, make more money, but I don't want to work, y'know?"
"Well, good luck with that."
"Yeah, I mean like. I do loooove to treat myself, y'know?"
"Mm."
And then she starts asking me to help her make a budget. Eventually she will get bored and leave me alone. Only we have similar conversations daily -_- It's like she thinks I care. Maybe I should start ignoring her compleatly.
Or maybe one day she will finally do one of the two or three things that will make me legitimately angry and we will have a fun shouting match. That usually works, if only by virtue of my never being loud. At least, it did the last time. Poor girl spent the rest of the year terrified of me, or so my other housemates told me. Whatever, I never saw her again, and things were done properly around the house :3
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ebeth | February 16, 2011 at 10:12 am
i am so. fucking. sorry. that’s ridiculous. wait until the beginning of the week when she has money, then hide her bank card. or just hit her
or pretend to be friends and use her to buy you things
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Vendaval | February 16, 2011 at 11:44 am
Wow, it sounds like if you and other roommates weren’t around she’d have accidentally killed herself from food poisoning or something. And making fun of you for being poor… such a cunt!
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dark dude of darkness | February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I recommend murder. Axes are good. And then her dad can send you money.
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Axa | February 16, 2011 at 3:04 pm
that’s intolerable, if she was just being a bitch but still pulling her weight that’s one thing, but if she won’t pay for her share of things when she has the money, that’s a problem. next time she tells you she “forgot”, you should tell her to go back and get it now.
also if she is too depressed to do the dishes, she is in no state to be in a foreign country.
the last bit about her constantly talking about how omg poor!!1 you are just shows that she’s a sad sort of person, so that’s not worth addressing. Her laziness is. Ugh, i don’t understand how people can be like that…
Did you guys talk about ground rules when you all moved in? If not, talk to your other housemate about doing that, since she seems like she is also sane. You might have to use some strategery when approaching the other girl about it cause she doesn’t seem to have any handle on real life matters.
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Axa | February 16, 2011 at 3:05 pm
not to say that making those comments is fine, she will just never understand why they aren’t, is what i mean. :/ FRICK
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Mel | February 18, 2011 at 8:32 am
Yeah, I know what you mean. Just, luckily (?) for her, it is extremely very hard to get me bovvered. And Amelia is the polite mothery type? And she hangs out at the centre most of the time. Which is looking like a better and better idea.
I mean, one of my housemates at home is very tactless and oblivious, but she won’t take things personally and she’s not outright rude about it. Just forgetful. Because she is a Good Person
and the only other person there on breaks, which is awesome because she doesn’t mind if I just don’t feel like wearing clothing. Anyway she might be messy as fuck but she's a good person to live with because you can tell her about these things and she'll clean shit up without a second thought.71.
Mel | February 18, 2011 at 8:33 am
Fucking formatting how does it work.
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Captain Fantastic | February 17, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I’ve got a solution. If she’s fit, that is. I’ll seduce her and use her to finance my alcoholism in exchange for sexual pleasures. That’s her money gone and actually doing something. I don’t mind shopping for two, it’s mostly frozen pizzas and super noodles anyway.
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Mel | February 18, 2011 at 8:34 am
Brb, putting her in a box and mailing her to you.
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POSOC | February 18, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I’m beginning to notice a pattern in your approach to life’s problems…
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Captain Fantastic | February 18, 2011 at 8:11 pm
There’s no problem so bad it cannae be solved with either sex or booze.
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POSOC | February 16, 2011 at 9:32 pm
…I honestly haven’t a clue what to say, because I’ve never had to live with someone that horrible. I would probably have snapped long ago in that situation. Scatterbrained, lazy, egotistical, incompetent, mean-spirited and socially inept*… grrr.
On a possibly related subject, I often stop and think, “Crap, two short years** until I have to be an ACTUAL ADULT!” *panicpanic* This comic expresses it better than I could: http://xkcd.com/616/ I know I’m probably going to make stupid mistakes adjusting to the real world; I just hope none of them are fatal.
(*Not “shy and awkward” socially inept, socially inept as in “has no concept that other people are important.” I have no problem with the first kind of social ineptness.)
(**Just realized my birthday is in April so it’s closer to one year now… AAAAH)
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Vendaval | February 16, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I think people only ever stop making stupid mistakes once they stop trying new things. I don’t think I’ll ever stop making mistakes, stupid or otherwise.
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Mel | February 17, 2011 at 3:45 am
All of y’all- thanks for the sympathy. It just feels good to let it all out.
Eboo- That’d involve even more contact with her. It’s not something I’m keen on.
Vendy- ONE CAN ONLY HOPE. Amelia had to tell her that chicken goes bad after a couple days. Even I know this -_-
Axa- Yeah, we went over it. About buying things and being clean. She’s still convinced that “that fucking cleaning lady is going to come soon, right?” There is no cleaning lady. What the fuck. And we don’t know how to handle her because she is a time bomb not governed by logic.
POSOC- Even most of those qualities are fine, so long as they’re not accompanied by abject douchiness.
So I came home around noon to get lunch between classes because I cannot afford to eat out all the time unlike some people. And I got yelled at for making too much noise opening the door because she was sleeping in. There’s a strict attendance policy, do you think they’ll ship her home? Probably not. Maybe if I complain to Housing Guy. But that’s mostly if you want to switch dwellings yourself. I quite like it here, I don’t have to pay for public transport. But seriously, it’s the FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES. And then she told me all about how she’s angry that the people she texted didn’t tell her professors that she was sick. Because clearly she is their responsibility UGH.
Can we rename this thread “Stupid Shit Mel’s Cunt Roomie Does” ?
Also you bitches need to stop being in different time zones so you can be online when I am, gosh.
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Mel | February 18, 2011 at 9:21 am
Bitch wanted to borrow my pants.
Please, I am waaaay skinnier.
And then socks, I like my socks.
Oh my god I just said “no” to someone.
This is like. Character development.
I AM MAD WITH THE POWER.
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ebeth | February 19, 2011 at 3:00 am
did not get drunk, in fact barely even buzzed which is mildly disappoint because no comedy hungover greyhounding, but probably for the best. and then to cleveland! and then to grant and lizzie and jade!
i’m going super early because i’m scared of Missing Things. i need to go pack and print things off and then get on a bus to downtown and not get lost
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Fiddler | February 19, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Mel~ YEEAHHHHH!
Eboo~ Have fun partying without me.
I’m in NC doing nothing and it’s fantastic.
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Mel | February 19, 2011 at 10:35 pm
So I just got back from a night of getting my awesome back on and goddamnit I am staying awake until it stops feeling like I’m going to get sick.
I’m not entirely sure where I ended up. I just know it started with my roomie coming back, me finally yelling at her, and then realizing that I love to yell at people. I got my goddamn assertiveness back, I love that bitch.
So naturally I decided it was a goodidea to go to a bar and break the habits of several alcohol-abstinent people. “I’ll go one for one with you. I WILL GO ONE FOR ONE WITH ALL OF YOU.” Fuck my head is fuckingouching. I am going to look at this post and wonder at my typing probably.
Anyway I think there were impromptu English lessons, some guy with really fucking great hair and I think I when I went to the bathroom I took care of the foreplay for whatever guys were taking some slutty chicks home I am like typing in HYPERSPEED this is so much fun.
Whatever fuck all y’all’s shit I am awesome and I got my awesome back so if you ever lose yours just yella t people it works I promise. And then get piss fucking drunk. Fuck it I am awesomer than all this shit my hair is purple and I got my Dom back on lastnighttodaythismorning?
I have tea.
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POSOC | February 19, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I imagine when you’re sober you’re going to be immensely amused by this post. I know I am.
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Mel | February 20, 2011 at 9:06 am
Oh wow, I lol’d.
Yeah so basically I’m awesome.
Also I ate an odd number (greater than two) of things without flinching.
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Mel | February 20, 2011 at 9:07 am
Oh fuck there’s a similar conversation I had on AIM around the same time with my BFF from home. He is trying to reason with me. And convinced drunk-me to lay out breakfast so sober-me wouldn’t be mad. I ain’t even mad.
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Captain Fantastic | February 20, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I think Scotland did you good.
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Jadestone | February 22, 2011 at 7:33 am
Ensiferum concert holy shit so much fun
my neck hurts so bad and I’m a bit battered from the mosh pit but it is the best thing ever
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Fiddler | February 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Back from NC. So, it was all warm and sunny and nice there this morning (this morning was an awesome morning) and I get home and it’s all cold and there’s tons of snow. Do not want. I love winter and all, but enough is enough. Once I get hint of spring, I’m ready for it. I do not wish to freeze after having my body adjust to warmth.
Even though Pip can’t stand lying next to me for very long (especially with covers/without clothes) since apparently I have a freakishly high body temperature and end up cooking the poor kid.
I won’t have anybody to snuggle with tonight.
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Mel | February 23, 2011 at 6:35 am
Pfft, snuggling is overrated.
Friend: Hey let’s start working out together.
Me: Mmkay, it’s been a year and a half but I suppose I should start caring again.
Friend: Sweet, let’s get started.
I CAN FEEL EVERY MUSCLE IN MY BODY. IT INVENTED NEW MUSCLES JUST SO I COULD FEEL PAIN THERE TOO.
In other news I play Pokemon at work and now everyone acknowledges that I’m the coolest person?
“What are you doing?”
“Uh, playing Pokemon…”
“Wait, really.”
“Hells yes really.”
“You’re 20 and you’re playing Pokemon.”
“It’s more winning than playing.”
“DUDE AWESOME HEY SHE’S PLAYING POKEMON.”
I will never figure this out.
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Fiddler | February 23, 2011 at 9:48 am
I disagree, snuggling is quite nice. I tend to fall asleep really easily when Pip’s there.
Heh, working out. That’s something that’s overrated.
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Mel | February 23, 2011 at 11:20 am
Oh, I’m not much of a cuddler. I think half of it is because I end up sleeping with people significantly larger than I am and it’s like OH GOD YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL ME IN MY SLEEP I KNOW IT. That and it’s like they’re getting clingy when I just want to fucking sleep.
No no, it is gooooood. Even if you’re only 20 pushups in and you want to quit and fucking die. You feel so good afterwards. And then the DOMS comes and you wonder why you bother. And then you remember that it’s because in a couple months you get to casually show off your abs. God, why did I ever stop? It’s not so bad, though. I can still dead-lift over half my weight
And pick up people heavier than I am.
So I just got back from dinner with my Token Austrian Friend, he is the coolest dude, he not only got me food and beer but also offered to have me over for Mexican food. And is short. That covers, like, at least 80% of the Things Guaranteed To Make Me Love You Forever.
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Fiddler | February 23, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Being smothered isn’t fun, I agree on that. Neither is bed- or cover-hogging.
Ugh but working out is followed by hurting… :/
Abs would be nice to have, though.
Why is being short significant?
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Mel | February 23, 2011 at 3:12 pm
BED-HOGS ARE THE WORST. I feel justified when I hit them and pretend to be asleep. “What? I must have been having an eventful dream, I don’t remember a thing.”
It is good hurting, and also fun to complain about. I can barely move without making something hurt; that just tells me I’ve been sitting about for too long. Fuck yeah motivation. And it goes away after a week or two. And that is when you DOUBLE ALL YOUR REPS.
Short is important because I am also short and I hate always having to look up to talk to people. Like my only two friends at the institute here: 6’0″ and 6’5″. Me: 5’2.5″ (I cling desperately to that half inch). IT IS NOT WORKING OUT. Why are my friends always fucking giants? And I thought it was bad last semestre when I was living with 4 x 5’10″…
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Fiddler | February 23, 2011 at 3:42 pm
One of my best friends is THE WORST bed and cover hog EVER. Seriously, she wraps up in a corner of blanket and then just rolls over until she’s completely cocooned in the covers and you’ve got less than a foot of bedspace. Worse yet, she’s impossible to wake up. I’ve poured cold water on her face and it didn’t wake her up. It is the worst.
I get my workout contra dancing every now and then (which generally cripples me for a week) or climbing on things, like trees or big rocks.
I’m 5’2.5″ as well, I guess I’ve gotten used to being shorter than everyone. I can gloat about fitting in small spaces or not hitting my head. Also I can sometimes convince them into giving me free piggyback rides. Or I have better leverage for ‘nad-kicking, if the need arises. 6’5″ bf makes fun of me still though, the fucker.
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Fortune Cell | February 23, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Aha. Apparently I very deliberately YANKED boyfriend’s pillow from under his head last night. When I was sleeping and he was attempting to. Whoops.
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Axa | February 23, 2011 at 4:26 pm
do you guys ever just order off the kids menu cause you can? anyway i like being short too, there are so many benefits
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Captain Fantastic | February 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Any girl that tries to steal my bedsheets gets a mid-sleep shag. It’s perfect- I get something for being woken up, and I get her back in a way that she can’t complain about. Ohhh yeah.
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Fiddler | February 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Julia~ Heh, nice.
Axa~ Not really. Generally because I don’t eat out that much, and even when I do I’m not that impressed with the kids menu. Aren’t kids menu items smaller portions, too? I tend to eat a lot…
Fridgy~ Interesting solution. Whatever works, I guess.
I am really bad at decoding things. Even when I have the key. >.<
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Mel | February 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm
It’s going to suck when I have to spend nearly a year in a place where I can’t go operas any night for 2-3 Euros. But then I get to properly move back out here ^_______^
I fucking love Vienna. I fucking love the opera, I jizzed all over myself. That is all.
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dark dude of darkness | February 24, 2011 at 3:16 pm
fucking government subsidized culture. fucking socialists.
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Vendaval | February 24, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Ughhhhh the opera over here is awesome, but all expensive and stuff. 23 dollars gets you a standing seat.
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Vendaval | February 24, 2011 at 10:05 pm
wtf that’s a dash there between the 2 and the 3.
Which means the opera costs between 2 and 3 euros. >.<
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Mel | February 24, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Yep. It depends on which place you go to.
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Mel | February 24, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Fuck fuck fuck, real life, why must you strike at the worst times. Self, why do you ask people on the internet what to do?
Got email from boss:
“Spring break from April 18 – 25. During that time there aren´t any classes. However the building will be opened from 9-5. My question to you is, who is in Vienna during that time and willing to work?”
I have still been to lazy to book anything. Okay, waiting for FinAid check to come in. But during the last week of May, and all of June, I’ll have only one class, and it doesn’t much matter if I skip it and the weather is NICE and I could maybe stay here for Easter and work and then TRAVEL in June? That’s like the responsible people thing to do yeah? But WEEK OFF. Augh.
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penguini | February 25, 2011 at 8:29 am
nonchalantly wore this to school yesterday…
http://penguiniandcompany.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dsc077221.jpg
and this, very very staged…
http://penguiniandcompany.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-make-up-will-kill-me.jpg
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ebeth | February 25, 2011 at 9:10 am
you are my favorite
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ebeth | February 25, 2011 at 9:26 am
also i stole the picture and made a facebook page
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Mel | February 25, 2011 at 10:21 am
Marry me?
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penguini | February 25, 2011 at 4:46 pm
of course!
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Fiddler | February 28, 2011 at 9:10 am
My mother just suggested that for a senior project I write an interpretive handbook for the 18th century fort nearby, since they don’t have one. Y’know, because writing a training manual for a French and Indian War era stone fort would be kinda cool as a HS project. Actually though. I’m kind of thinking it might be fun. Also thinking about being a docent there over the summer. But I want to sail too. So maybe I’ll do the apprentice thing on Clearwater for a month and work at the fort and possibly trade manual labor for horseback riding lessons. Along with finishing up the HS stuff that I told her to not put on my transcript, because if I get a GED then it’s HS equivalency anyway and I don’t know how I’m going to get that done in like, a negative amount of time. But yeah.
Then I can go about getting my MMC (Merchant Mariner’s Credential) and stuff, so next year when I know what the boundaries of my summer will be a bit better I can go seeking employment on a boat so I don’t have to move back here for a whole summer.
Except that means living at home most of this summer. But if I’m working at the fort/riding horses I’ll be away by myself a fair amount. And it would be fun to have some summer time with local friends, if they can get their shit together and dump abusive boyfriends and stuff so they can hang with me. Y’know.
While on the topics of MMCs and sucklike, I need to find my letters of sea-time from the Roald. I wonder how our coast guard will look on a letter that’s written all in German?
“What’s this?”
“A letter of sea-time.”
“What does it say?”
“Hell if I know, it’s in German.”
“Then how do you expect us to believe it’s sea-time? And why is it in German?”
“Because it was a German ship….?”
“Why were you on a German ship?”
“For shits and giggles?”
“Hmm…”
That’s if I can find it, because I have no idea where it is. It’s probably lurking somewhere in my summer crap still. Most likely bent up and mauled, since it had to make the switch back to Niag and then live in my seabag for several more months. Seabags aren’t kind to papers, especially official documents that need to be kept looking pretty.
I just read an article Grantikins posted a link to on FB about how crows are going to come and KILL US ALL and now I’m terrified. Edgar Allen Poe was onto something. NEVERMORE, NEVERMORE!
Actually I’m more like “dude I want a pet crow now, except that it would probably try to kill me and that wouldn’t be cool. But whatever.”
Fake gauge spiral earrings. http://www.etsy.com/listing/62698030/small-spirals-organic-bone-earrings
I need them. I need to convince mom of this, because I don’t have a PayPal account. Blahhh.
I like the look of stretched ears, I just don’t think I really want to do it permanently. I like my regular earrings too.
I have become an earring fanatic recently. >.<
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Vendaval | March 3, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Steel yourself! Getting a TWIC can be a huge pain.
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Mel | February 28, 2011 at 9:45 am
Dude living at home is pretty much the worst. Where are these friends of yours? Give them to me. I have magical powers when it comes to making people dump people, it’s uncanny.
Do you need help with translation? Even though it’s probably about boring things. Just sayin’, I spent half a summer translating shit my German great-grandparents wrote. Boredom due to living at home will do that to you. It might take a while though, because I am lazy and script (I presume it’s written in Suetterlin, because Kurrent or something would just make it too easy).
Dude, just gauge your ears. You can sew them back together, it happens all the time. Of course this is coming from someone too indecisive to figure out what sort of awesome literary tattoo she should get. So disregard that.
This is going to be the Best Week Ever.
Yesterday: Madama Butterfly, which had me practically bawling.
Today: Laundry! Groceries! Which make me feel productive, okay?
Tomorrow: I get to see Der Alpenkoenig und der Menschenfeind instead of going to my boring-ass Music History class. Also: Belvedere’s superspecialawesome Schiele exhibit!
Wednesday: No classes, Sonata Arctica concert.
Thursday: Too many classes, then I sleep, finally.
Friday: One class canceled, and then Paganfest.
Saturday: I made a friend with an extra ticket to see the Beatsteaks!
Now if only I could get my fucking registration to work. Bleargh.
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Fiddler | February 28, 2011 at 10:30 am
It’s just one of my friends, really. There’s this dick who’s been abusing her since the beginning (over a year now), they break up a few times a day and then get back together again and she starts sobbing when we’re talking because he’s being a jerk (no shit what did you expect, kiddo?) and it’s just a mess. SERIOUSLY, DO YOUR MAGIC. Actually, my bf who kind of knows her through me has offered to manipulate them into breaking up for good, except it would probably make her even more depressed for awhile, and what with her fucked up family situation and all I’m afraid she’d do something drastic. She’s a bit fragile.
And yeah, living at home (esp. with psychobitch mother) is less than fun. “You’ll get other chances to sail!” “NOT IF I GO INSANE FROM YOU FIRST.”
Gauging ears: prolly not going to happen. I like my thin earrings too, and if I can get gauged looks AND regular looks then I’m going to be a wuss and just do that. Yes, I’m a terrible faking person, but whatevs.
Tattoos…I have no idea what I’d want to get permanently drawn/written on my body (preferably drawn, word tattoos just look dumb to me). The usual sailorly suspects: anchors, stars, sparrows, whatnot, or other various symbols or interesting things (a question mark maybe. Or an ampersand or something) might be cool. But still, mehhh lots of money and nothing’s really jumped out at me like I WANT THAT ON MY BODY FOREVER. So yeah.
If I had any sort of artistic flair I’d totally draw something and get it done or make an attempt at doing myself (even though yeah, that has so much potential to turn out badly), but I don’t and I’m not good at the whole causing pain to myself thing. I would be terrible at being emo.
Also, I want you life. I can haz?
And if I get accepted to a college then my summer will end in like, mid August. WTF? So that means I may not have time to sail. Or work at the fort. Unless I just work at the fort for a little bit. While doing schoolwork. And then sail for a little bit. And then rush to college. BAH.
Also need to figure out how to remain contact with The Boy and visit and all. Monthly visits have been good so far, but that may just come to a screeching halt, and that would be bad. Damn it, why does this have to be so inconvenient? Except that like, breaking up wouldn’t help because I’d still like him and all. FUCK THAT.
Apologies for my rambliness.
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Fiddler | March 2, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Axaaaaa why aren’t you on fb anymore?
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axa | March 2, 2011 at 7:49 pm
blah long story short i can’t deal with it right now but i will hopefully make a triumphant return at some point cause it is pretty inconvenient emailing people instead and whatnot. le sigh.
also your life is and remains the most exciting sounding life ever. i love reading about all your adventures
*still pining for a future DC meetup* *fails*
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Fiddler | March 2, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Aww okay I can accept that. As long as I get to see you on here and MB and stuff because otherwise there would be a gaping Axa-sized hole in my heart.
My life has exciting bits with a lot of boring bits inbetween. Working on eliminating the boring bits.
FUTURE DC KOKON IS STILL TOTALLY ON. Unless I get to CA first, in which case we’ll kokonvene there. We will meet eventually. I feel that if it weren’t to happen there would be something fundamentally wrong with the universe. So yeah, morally obliged to meet up at some point. ♥
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axa | March 3, 2011 at 1:57 am
SERIOUSLY!!! and…awww ;___;
on that topic, gurl check whatever email your fb is connected to cause i sent you a thing cause i realized i don’t have your email, but nope to fb still -__-
LIKE, I AM GONNA EXPLODE JUST THINKING ABOUT ALL THE STUFF IN DC. WHY!!!! my ungrateful brother was at the smithsonian on thanksgiving like oh no biggie and i wept tears of righteous RAGE
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Mel | March 3, 2011 at 12:30 am
So last night, I got back late from an awesome concert (but seriously they need to learn to mosh here), showered like my life depended on it (which it did), and passed out. And then I woke up realizing that today I have a test and a report due. Fuck yeah, just wrote it. It’s like it’s freshman year again, and my classes are bullshit xD But seriously, I need a European keyboard, the umlauts are killing my WPM.
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axa | March 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm
VENDY I SEE YOU WHERE YOU BEEN AT
?______?
in other news, this is my life: i am going to ~brunch with one of my friends tomorrow and i’m sitting here looking at the menu online going “oh that looks good…that looks good too…what should i get…”
YEP
the more you know
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Vendaval | March 3, 2011 at 7:56 pm
HEY THERE AXA!
shit got bad and i dropped off the face of the earth. back now?
gonna hop on aim nao. explain more later.
I went to a brunch recently! With a group of strangers from the internet… Everything went ok! I had the lobster-mac. I (accidentally) had the table thinking I was 25. I learned that AYCD means “All You Can Drink”, and I did actually drink some, which is out of character, but it was swell. I was comforted by a drunk Australian. I hope your brunch is as enjoyable!
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Captain Fantastic | March 4, 2011 at 6:49 am
I think AYCDs are illegal here, like anything encouraging binge drinking. Any event like that would probably result in the liver failure of 3/4s of those attending.
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Mel | March 4, 2011 at 3:08 am
So, today my (crazy) roomie informed me that, weeks ago, she convinced my class that I had Asperger’s. Suddenly so many things make sense.
Wat.
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Lizzie | March 4, 2011 at 7:04 am
Fern – http://haircrazy.info/styling-guides/temporary-dreads/
you should try it and tell me how it goes
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Fiddler | March 4, 2011 at 7:58 am
Mel~ Crazy roomie needs to be disposed of, preferably in a violent manner. Who would do that?
Lizzie~ Haha oh awesome. Minor problems: I don’t have a straightener or hair spray. I may have friends with such things that I can convince to help me out though. The major problem though is that my hair is possessed with demons. In other words, it’s very fine and I have a ton of it (last time I got my hair chopped off all at once the top of the ponytail was over an inch in diameter). Any attempts to curl it with hot irons have failed miserably, resulting in maybe one twist that lasted 8 seconds, to the discouragement of my friend who was attempting to give me a makeover.
This is also a potential stumbling block for real dreads, as I’m sure it’ll take a massive amount of backcombing, and may expand out of any semblance of control. Scary thought.
Also apparently my hair looks asian. I have no idea why. Probably because it’s short and when it’s wet it looks kind of spiky and coarse? CONFUSION.
Why am I talking so much about hair? That’s Mel’s job. >.<
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Mel | March 5, 2011 at 1:28 am
Fiddlah- Crazy people, evidently. And you should talk about all the hair ever. See video (fuck, does it automatically embed? I forget how to do this shit). It is basically my theme song. I’m thinking I’ll go back to bright fucking red for Nowruz (goddamn I am excited to party with the Turks here).
But back to your hair troubles. Don’t people use beeswax or like ETHNIC HAIR PRODUCTS or whatever they’re called these days? And wear hats (beanies) to keep them going in a direction that is vaguely downward? I must research this. I mean, I’m a sexy librarian for 5.5 more hours, that’s got to be good for something.
Speaking of which, I’m typing this from work. I don’t know where the key to open the front door got to (I came in through the back). Maybe no one will show up and I can internet on the public computer in peace for six hours. Despite the fact that I brought homework.
Also concerts! Are the most fun thing, because I have this alternate ego who needs release through controlled violence. Except there was like. NONE of that at the SA concert. Which was really strange. I mean, I know it’s girly music, but at home, the crowd rocks hard.
Somehow I got this huge gash on my right hand at the concert last night and it really fucking hurts to type. Aside from that. This city is great, they don’t know how to mosh, they think I’m hardcore, it’s adorable. No, really. I’m not a large person, I should fall over at least once, especially if I’m in the thick of it, yeah? Nope. Almost. But nope. And they’re not as into picking people right the fuck up. I got weird looks for that. Or maybe they were wondering how the guy didn’t knock me over.
But really though. It took a bunch of Germans in ridiculous body paint asking for a wall of death to get the crowd going. Varg was surprisingly decent for a wolf-themed band. WHAT IS WITH ALL THE WOLVES?
At least these concerts remind me that I Must Not Cut All My Hair Off Again. But goddamn I miss my sweet-ass lesbian-hair.
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 5:53 am
My dad was in that movie! As an extra, but yeah. They were filming in DC and offered a free Bonnie Raitt concert to get lots of college-age kids to run across the mall at once or something, and because he is a huge Bonnie Raitt fan he went, ran across the mall, did their thing and then left and never watched the movie. xD I keep threatening to get it out to see whether we can spot him in it.
I have no experience with metal concerts, so I’d probably think you’re hardcore too. But glad it was fun.
Why does this remind you you must not cut off all your hair again? And why is short hair considered lesbian? Maybe because I just didn’t style mine or anything, but even at it’s shortest I just got mistaken for a dude, not asked about my sexuality. Pffft whatever.
Speaking of concerts, the Arlo Guthrie concert with dad last night was fun.
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Kagcomix | March 5, 2011 at 8:38 am
Fiddler- God. People assume I’m a lesbian all the time because I dress like a little boy & have a shaved head. But whatever, I make the most of it.
So recently I’ve been working up my courage & sending off some of my illustration & comic stuff to small press magazines to see if they’d hire me…. and one actually said yes! I have yet to hear back from the others. Kind of exciting. Fingers crossed. (you can check out my work at my tumblr if you want to http://kagcomix.tumblr.com/ )
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Mel | March 5, 2011 at 9:06 am
Man, I wish I had the balls to shave my head.
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 8:43 am
Kagy~ Huh, I’ve never gotten that at all. Is your hair short or actually all shaved off?
Congrats on drawing for magazines, that’s fantastic! Your artwork is incredible, I’m always amazed.
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 8:47 am
Also wanted to add that your Portrait of the Artist as an English Gentleman in Blue has got to be one of my all-time favorites.
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Mel | March 5, 2011 at 8:44 am
THAT IS AWESOME. This movie and made half my high school experience. You’ve got to watch it. Or come visit me and my one friend. We’ll FFWD the lame bits and provide you with beverages and explanations designed to enhance the experience.
Except I’m really not, at least not in that regard. Here, it’s usually like “whee, herp derp large person fell on me, whoo twenty people picked us up, this is going to hurt tomorrow but I’ll just power through that, oh fuck oh fuck my leg is not bending right.” The rush to get your coat back after an opera is more dangerous, I swear. Though, the gash is new. But they don’t get awesomeness-credit just because some stupid shit thought it’d be a great idea to mosh with spiked armbands. What idiot decided that’d be cool? Like, I didn’t even think that was cool when I was lyk totez gawffick.
The headbangings remind me that I need to let my hair grow. I cut it all off after my first year of college. And then I tried to balance letting it grow and killing it with bleach. Which went as poorly as you’d expect. But whatever, it resulted in a month or so of awesome Spike hair. And I was like in not-eating mode, so I had the cheekbones for it. Anyway, I figured I’d just be too cheap for haircuts this semestre. But goddamnit I want my adorable flippy oddly-coloured man-cuts back. The colours might’ve made me seem super dykey. But then there’s also the way I dress and act. I don’t even see it, new people I meet always think I’m gay. Haven’t gotten mistaken for a dude, though.
I have no idea who that is o.O I once went to a TSO concert with my dad. Well, thrice, actually.
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 9:00 am
Beverages and explanations to enhance the experience? Why am I suddenly reminded of Go Ask Alice? But yeah, when you get back to the states and we hang out we’ll watch Hair. xD
Different places, different things to be hardcore about I guess? I have a hard time imagining hardcore opera fans knocking each other down to get to the cloakroom here.
He’s a folk-y kind of musician, he played at Woodstock. Youtube it if interested. Several of my friends were like “whoa, he’s alive? I would have thought he’d have died of an overdose or something ages ago….well, have fun at the concert.”
Basically it was a guy with long white hair and lots of guitars and a band behind him telling stories and singing to an audience of old hippies and their grandchildren. It was fun.
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Mel | March 5, 2011 at 9:16 am
And now the Jefferson Airplane song is stuck in my head. We can totally do this. I still don’t see what you have against Ren Faires. I don’t think they’re supposed to be accurate. They’re just an excuse to say “steak on a stake” a lot and dress like a slutty elf / gay pirate. Or Stormtroopers. Or Captain Hammer.
Li’l'ol’ ladies be needin’ they fur yo.
Oh my god that sounds like when I work followspot at Nearfest and Musikfest.
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 9:24 am
Exactly, I get that Ren Faires are just for funsies and not meant to be taken seriously. It’s just that some people actually do take them kind of seriously and it reinforces misinformation. I have a love/hate relationship with them.
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axa | March 5, 2011 at 1:12 pm
HAHAHA SLUTTY ELF / GAY PIRATE xDD i die!
i typed up a whole reply and then accidentally the entire tab…dammit
hair: fiddler i feel your pain, my hair also refuses to hold a curl or anything. while it is often convenient for me since i am the worst at hair styling and the like, sometimes i envy people whose hair will, you know, do stuff
i’ve been thinking of maybe lightening my hair a few shades? i dunno though. :s
kagy: WOW AMAZING i have never seen your art before now somehow but that is all really really nice! do you upload stuff there regularly?
and congrats on the job part, that’s amazing!
i am always boggled by artistic talent…
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Fiddler | March 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Trying to imagine what you’d look like with lighter hair and failing at that because I have a really hard time getting my brain to create visuals. I’m sure you could pull anything off, being insanely adorable and all.
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Mel | March 5, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Axa- Azn blondes arefucking hot do it.
So Austrian strip clubsa re fucking hilarious and oh mhy god my frien has a girlfrined pleas etlell me I’m not a slut.
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Mel | March 6, 2011 at 4:14 am
THIS ISN’T AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS. I think I’m going to turn my computer off every time I go out, from now on.
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Ebeth | March 6, 2011 at 9:13 pm
you are THE DRUNKEST
i love you
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Captain Fantastic | March 7, 2011 at 9:44 am
When was the last time I posted drunk on here?
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Kagcomix | March 6, 2011 at 7:20 am
Fiddler- My head used to actually be shaved as in bald skin showing, but now it’s just a short buzz cut.
axa- I update often enough I guess
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Fiddler | March 6, 2011 at 9:11 am
Mel~ Do explain?
Kagy~ Aha.
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Mel | March 6, 2011 at 10:27 am
On AIM?
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Fiddler | March 6, 2011 at 10:29 am
As you wish. Now that my internets have decided to work. For now.
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Fiddler | March 7, 2011 at 9:30 am
Kids, this is why we shouldn’t use the word “gay” as interchangeable with “dumb” or “I don’t like said person or object and I can’t think of a creative way of expressing this other than attacking en’s sexuality, which doesn’t even matter anyway”, not only is it demeaning and ignorant (not to mention uncreative), it also makes for misunderstandings. Direct quotes from FB:
Person 1: *makes status about some celebrity or other*
Person 2: “[He's] gay. o.O”
Person 1: “What?! As in you don’t like him or he is literally a homosexual?”
OH HUMANITY, WHY?
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Fiddler | March 7, 2011 at 6:32 pm
So I kind of got an acceptance letter from this college I’ve been talking about since I accepted the fact that I should probably go to college….also the place that I kind of really, really, really want to go to.
I’m kind of extremely excited about this.
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POSOC | March 7, 2011 at 10:58 pm
That’s kind of cool.
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Mel | March 8, 2011 at 12:06 am
Fiddlah- YAY. This probably explains your status xD
So remember when I was like “I have one sane roomie and one crazy one” ? LIES. THEY ARE BOTH INSANE. Also sometimes I forget that I’m supposed to lie to strangers about my real name / contact information.
Did you know that Turkish generals recruited armies by impressing them with their abilities to eat Doener sammiches without creating any mess, while walking, talking, and wearing gloves? Because I think I just got one. I knew I should’ve found a Kebab stand a little further from my apartment. This is probably a sign that I need to start grocery shopping again. But I didn’t want to / had no time all weekend -_-
I’m not shitting you, I could start a sideshow with the people who inexplicably flock to me. Why do they persist? I mean, I know I’m this glowing beacon of awesomeness, but I think I make it fairly clear that I prefer to do things alone.
Crazy on doing things alone: “How have you, like, not gotten molested yet?” Bish I can fucking handle myself.
Other Crazy on her life: “Soooo basically my dad’s not going to support me anymore because of how much I’ve been spending here, I don’t get it, it’s not fair.” I had work for FOUR HOURS on Monday, she came in about half an hour in and I was trapped on the listening end of what she took for a heart-to-heart.
I swear the day I have a conversation with someone with a functioning brain I will freaking propose.
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Fiddler | March 8, 2011 at 5:14 am
POSOC~ I thought so, yeah.
Mel~ Yes. See this is where I got into, not what got into me.
I have no idea about why everyone loves you. That sounds bad…I know why people like you, because, as you said, you’re a shining beacon of awesome. But there are lots of shining beacons of awesome that may not get as much attention.
My best guesses are
-you’re actually good at social situations, even though you don’t believe it
-people see that you’re interesting and funny and want to get to know you better
-people see that you’re fearless and do whatever the fuck you want, and they like that because they’re too scared to do it themselves, so they try to tag along after you and use you for protection while you’re off doing your Crazy Things.
-the people flocking about you may be oblivious to your wanting things to do alone, or they may just be desperate and want to try their luck because if they don’t succeed they’ll just end up pissing you off, and if they do then they’ll have protection for Awesome Adventures.
-could also be that they want you as their token “friend with Aspergers and fantastic hair.”
Full disclosure, I like to do whatever the fuck I want, but I also like not getting mugged/hit on by creepy hobos. So for me I generally try to convince people to join me in my madcap adventures, or find another interesting person and make out some kind of adventure compromise. If I didn’t know you I’d probably flock as well.
And now for something completely different:
I have a very strange dream last night that included my cousin (who looks feakishly like me, I believe I’ve mentioned her before) showing up (with dreadlocks. I’m not obsessed with them, really!), going to some rally in DC, hiking, picking up cars (by picking up I mean actually picking the car up. By myself. One end at a time though, to kind of scootch it over in the parking space) and forgetting the keys, water bottle, purse and everything in the car and having to run back to get them while hoping no one had broken into it. While driving on the way to this hiking trail that we’d take to get to the rally to avoid the traffic, we saw all these crazy cars and campers, including one VW-bus thing that was covered in felt flowers and fringe, all pink and orange, of course.
It was by far the most entertaining dream I’ve had in some time.
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dark dude of darkness | March 8, 2011 at 3:27 pm
You know what would be really cool? If people actually had token friends with aspergers and fantastic hair. I would have SO MANY FUCKING FRIENDS. Although apparently it’s not actually that great, so I think I’m good. Also do not actually have ass burger.
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Ebeth | March 9, 2011 at 12:16 am
i dunno your hair seemed pretty impressive from the pics i’ve seen
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Mel | March 9, 2011 at 12:28 am
His hair is made of sunshine and magic and things that smell good. Probably unicorns.
/creepy
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dark dude of darkness | March 9, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Yeah I’m not doubting the quality of my hair, just the desirability of having a gigantic mob of people wanting to be with you all the time.
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Mel | March 8, 2011 at 8:51 am
Fiddlah, maybe your next bowl of miso will be better, eh?
Dude hold off on the social situations evaluation until this summer. I’m repeatedly told that my body language reeks of either astounding awkwardness or abject disinterest.
Also I wouldn’t say I’m fearless. I’m just too dumb to realize that I should fear things. That, and this shit is usually tempered by one of two good friends (depending on if I’m at home or collegeland). And I’m sort-of without that now so I’m back to total fuckoff mode.
And what do you mean, if you didn’t know me? I never got anyone arrested or killed! Injured, moderately-severely, but that was the kid’s own damn fault for being a dumbass. Fun story, though. Well, on my end anyway.
Anyway how did they all get my email? It sucks, now I have to go through all these to find people I actually want to get coffee/beer with. Who are mostly professors. /suckup
You froods should rec’ me some music, also. I filled up my iPod and had a mini-crisis and, for the last forever now, I’ve been listening to Various Positions and OCMR like my life depends on it. This can’t be healthy it is like I am fourteen again.
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penguini | March 8, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I got nearly equal amounts of You’re Fucking Awesome looks and You’re a Fucking Freak looks today… I feel like I’ve won! Today’s look invoking getup is a purple ex-longsleeve shirt that has the left sleeve off at the wrist and replaced with an armwarmer and the right sleeve off at the shoulder to the upper arm. And a butt-length hairfall that matches the shirt…
mel- I would stalk your awesome too. Just sayins’
ALSOMUSIC: humanwine is made of win. That is my recommend.
Re:HAIR- week or so ago I had my entire head in box braids and everyone thought they were dreads. I’m currently looking into cornrows to fake a mohawk but don’t know how well that’s gonna work. :/
um, yeah, I’ll go back to lurking then, shall I?
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Fiddler | March 9, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Weirdest thing I’ve seen in awhile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001846625116#!/thatswhatshesaidneedsjesus?sk=wall&filter=1
Because EVERYONE knows that dirty jokes and Jesus go together PERFECTLY.
Mel~ Sure, I’ll wait until I meet you in person to cast judgment on your social interactions/body language/etc.
By “if I didn’t know you” meant “if I didn’t know you hated tag-alongers I’d probably flock like all the people that are annoying you.”
Penguini~ That sounds like a most intriguing outfit.
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penguini | March 13, 2011 at 11:09 am
I saw apocalyptica last night and there are no words for how much win happened. MY MIND = ASPLODED FROM AWESOME. REPEATEDLY. *babbles* Also, there was a guy who looked like rowan (but with criminally short hair XD)
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Mel | March 15, 2011 at 9:50 am
Fiddlah- Righto. YET THEY PERSIST. Also I have more “friends” since cutting my hair off. I AM ONTO YOU, YOU DASTARDS.
Okay, my professor scheduled a going-to-a-play outing on fucking SAINT PATTY’S DAY. I’m going to show up drunk and leave during intermission. Seriously? On drink-green-beer-until-you-pass-out day? This sucks.
Also that guy, he tried to walk me home from class again WHY DOES HE KEEP DOING THAT I am as “fuck off” as I could possibly be. Good news is I got a free ticket to an actual seat at the opera from one of our professors. Bad news is he took the other one immediately thereafter. I need to get my opera on without any stalkers. Gosh.
Also does anyone know if “no strings attached” means something COMPLEATLY DIFFERENT in German or if people are just weird here?
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Jadestone | March 15, 2011 at 11:45 am
HAVE COMPUTER BACK, LIFE CAN RESUME
no seriously that was a terrible time for me to be without the internet because LIFE WHAT IS THIS MADNESS but hello all
I am in a weird mood today and proper punctuation is for losers
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Mel | March 17, 2011 at 3:40 am
Every damn day:
Crazy roomie walks into apartment, barges into double.
Thermostat is there.
Asks why it’s so hot, turns temperature down.
Comes back in an hour or so later.
Asks why it’s so cold, turns temperature back up.
You’d think she’d wait a fucking moment to, ah, adjust to the temperature in the house. Yeah, it’s going to seem fucking hot when you come in from walking across a bridge and up stairs with a coat on.
Herp derp.
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Fiddler | March 17, 2011 at 9:17 am
So I’m good for volunteering at Jtown this weekend, which is awesome. Now I need to find somewhere to sleep while I’m there. I feel so weird bumming space and/or rides from people, especially unsolicited and with short notice. BLAH.
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Fiddler | March 17, 2011 at 9:43 am
Got a ride and floorspace. Now to finish bsing my way through these writing things and start on actual schoolwork-y stuff so I won’t be totally guilty all weekend. And when I get back I need to do ACTUAL WORK. Gah.
Aside from the whole real work, looming academic needs, feeling weird about asking favors and spending most of my money feeding my car, this is how I want my life to be. Kind of.
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Jadestone | March 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm
computer broken again and no loaners at the tech store fml
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POSOC | March 18, 2011 at 9:46 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Fiddler | March 22, 2011 at 8:41 am
My weekend was fucking awesome, as expected. I got to hang out with my Civil war navy guys and sing shanties until 3am, which was the unquestionable highpoint. I kind of really don’t like only seeing some of my friends once a year.
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Mel | March 27, 2011 at 2:57 am
I’m finally (mostly) alive after a trip to Paris. I got sick and spent most of yesterday in bed fucking off on the internet, eating fake Nutella out of the jar, detagging pictures I look fat in, and wondering why I wore those shoes. This morning has basically been me putting the kettle on, forgetting about it, and turning it on again. Which reminds me, maybe it’s still warm and I can finally have some damn Earl Grey Hot. Oh, and sneezing a lot of blood. Which is bullshit because it’s nearly April, seriously. Also DST whut whut.
On our trip we got some free map with pictures of important buildings and decided to walk to every freaking one of them. The blisters. The sights! Only my one friend and I sort-of ditched the group because liebe Gott I am not looking at the city solely through a camera lens. You have to take these things in. And this friend had French skills. Must say, it was nice to once again be in a city in which jaywalking is the norm. Now I’m missing the sun sun sun here it comes.
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Mel | March 27, 2011 at 2:57 am
ALSO I TOTALLY MET KLARA AND SHE SHOULD POST HERE I KNOW YOU’RE READING THIS YOU ARE COOL DUDE DON’T FEEL AWKWARD K <3
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Fiddler | March 29, 2011 at 5:45 pm
I want to get a real camera. Looking to totally shamelessly copy Jade and Kiki, even though I know I’ll never be nearly as cool as them.
I also need to decide whether the dreadlocks are an actual go or not and order the kit and just DO IT.
Starting to chicken out on that front.
Someone yell at me and set me straight.
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dark dude of darkness | March 29, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Dreads mostly look terrible on anyone who isn’t black. dunno if that counts as yelling.
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Captain Fantastic | March 29, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Dreadlocks? Fuck no.
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Lizzie | March 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Do it. The nice thing about hair is that it’s not permanent, and if you don’t you’ll always be like “I wonder what it would have been like to have dreadlocks.”
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Jadestone | March 30, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Dooo iiiit. If you don’t like them you can just cut them off and have short hair again, which you’ve done before and seemed to have no problem with. Idk if it’s possible to start them a few inches down your hair and then go back and do the top bits, but if it is you could do that and have some hair left if you decide to get rid of them instead. That sentence may not have made any sense.
Also, CAMERAS. My suggestion: start taking pictures with the one you have. Lots of them. Bring it everywhere with you. Figure out what you’re interested in taking pictures of–nature, people, architecture, etc. Look at photographs you like online, or photographers, if you know any you like. Try to figure out what you like about them and what you think makes a good picture. If you still are interested in photography and want a better camera after this, then I say go for it. Sometimes people think they want to get into photography but get bored after a few months, and then have wasted a couple thousand dollars into something they don’t plan to continue. I’m not saying don’t get a DSLR unless you plan to go professional by any means, it’s a ton of fun at an amateur level, but it’s always good to be sure you want to invest in it. In the mean time, with the camera/pictures you have, start playing around with software (iPhoto, Photoshop, etc) and get a feel for it. It’s amazing how much the tweaking of a few levels can do.
TL;DR YAAAAY CAMERAS! Make sure you like it then go for it!
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Fiddler | March 30, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Lizzie~ Yeah, I probably will. Just losing momentum.
Jade~ Not really, you have to start at the roots and work down. But there are dread removal products and I like short hair, so no problem there. Like I said, I want to do it, I’m just starting to lose momentum.
CAMERAS. The camera I have now…heh. Yeah, about that. I have a 3MP Kodak easyshare that takes godawful pictures somewhere still. The other one I had this summer was terrible (what is this battery life you speak of? focus? HAHA NOPE. Taking less than 5 seconds to take a picture? HAHA ALSO NOPE). I got some good pictures with it, but overall it was disappointing and frustrating. Then it vanished at the end of the summer, so I have the Kodak (somewhere, probably molding under my bed) and my cell phone, which takes slightly better pictures than the kodak, as sad as that is.
Basically my reason for wanting a good camera is because I’ve always been frustrated with the point and shoot ones I’ve used.
Heh, as for what I want to take pictures of…everything. I tend to look at boring things and be all “WHOA THAT’S AWESOME I WANT TO REMEMBER THAT/HAVE OTHER PEOPLE SEE IT SOMEHOW.” One of my favorite pictures I took through a glass bottle at a living history event. I was (due to boredom) looking through it at the tents, admiring the distortion and color from the glass (it’s green) and the deep red of the pomegranate juice in it. So I got out my camera (the aforementioned piece of shit) and managed to get a picture that kind of captured that. (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5155541&l=7b0454b530&id=766666833)
I’m probably batshit crazy, but I think it’s kind of fun.
I don’t want to be all “la de da photographer” I just want to enjoy taking pictures. As much as I love looking at photography, and as awesome as some of my photographer friends are, I kind of look at photographers in general like the rest of the world looks at hipsters. Please don’t be offended or hate me. >.<
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Axa | March 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm
hmm i think it’s because there are so many people who say “oh yes i am le photographer, it’s like my thing you know” but then there are actual photographers who are too busy taking pictures to talk about themselves that much.
maybe it’s the gap between label (or something) and actual talent? because i know a lot of people who might term themselves photographers but the only person i know that i would actually call a photographer is jade, and i don’t know if she would even want to be called that (??? what is a sentence)
i have mixed feelings even saying this because i feel like if there is something you enjoy you should do it and who am i to say otherwise, but i dunno…i guess it’s the attitude that bothers me most. especially with the wealth of technology and editing programs/cool cameras it’s easy to imitate actual talent (not to say you can’t learn). But if i look at famous photographs like ansel adams i know that i couldn’t do that.
mostly i feel kind of unqualified to say anything though…
hipster agreement is another thing but mostly idgaf and cry deeply when i go into urban and want to buy everything.
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Fiddler | March 31, 2011 at 7:26 am
Axa we think too much alike for this to be normal.
I dislike the condescension of some photographers who act as though it’s their thing and theirs only and any lesser mortals who dare to try to take nice pictures are SO INFERIOR. I mean, I know there’s technique and stuff to learn and all, but at the end of the day, you’re just taking pictures and that doesn’t make you a god. Any learnable thing is accessible to everyone, can’t we just accept that and move on in a constructive manner? Sheesh.
That said, as I mentioned above, I do like photography, and I like most of the people I know that are photographers. It’s just occasional attitude issues that big me.
I actually really like “hipster” clothes/stores/whatever.
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Mel | March 31, 2011 at 7:54 am
Dreadlock protip: wait until hair super long, dreads look weird above chin-length.
Photography protip: no sepia. And everyone knows that only berets and long-winded explanations will make you UN ARTEEST.
Artist who is not in an art critique class: “it speaks for itself.”
Arteest: “BLAH BLAH FEELINGS BLAH BLAH SPESHUL SNOWFLAKE THIRDS ANGLE SADNESS DEEP SEPIA.”
Hipster clothes: dude who cares so long as you don’t look like a total uncoordinated asshat.
So how do I convince my parents to let me take a summer class? They wouldn’t care about the academicy bit, just, the costs… Or how bad will one less than magical grade look on my transcript if it’s seen that I’m retaking it to look like a person who knows things? Because we have to send these things out a bit earlier than I thought and I figured I could fix it next semestre
by actually going to that class this time around. Fuck I’m like going to grad offices here and then getting intimidated like “WHAT IS GERMAN I CAN’T SPEAK IT YOU’RE SCARY AND IMPORTANT HERP DERP WORD ORDER.” Ohgodreallife. And one professor I was banking on for a letter of recommendation retired and now his school-email is basically defunct. Ugh, I can only dedicate so much mental energy into sucking up. And talking to people. Etc.177.
Fiddler | March 31, 2011 at 8:28 am
Mel~ Talked to a friend last night who offered to send me her comb and some dread soap and stuff she’s not using when she gets back home in May. So awesome that I don’t have to buy stuff and I’ll have several more months which means longer hair when I start, which is good.
Perfect summary of arteest attitude.
Clothes: I look ridiculous no matter what I wear.
Tell your parents that if you don’t take this class you will be completely uneducated and fail at life for the rest of eternity while living in a shitty trailer park and depending on welfare and all your talents will be WASTED. Throw in some hysterical sobbing while you’re at it.
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Mel | March 31, 2011 at 10:09 am
Shiny, you should dye them something cool. Deep henna red, maybe. Idk man, I personally think dreadlock-ponytails look mad cool.
Just don’t wear clothes then. Do it for GREAT ART.
They’ll be so dang mad. Fucking. Why must they cosign a loan. Like that is the one thing keeping me from being compleatly independent. And I can’t just get a loan because herp derp college kid no collateral.
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Fiddler | March 31, 2011 at 11:24 am
I’ve thought about henna dye. I’d have to dye my hair after the summer though (no red hair in the 18th century that I know of, boo!) for Le Job I hope to get. And they say dye hair before dreading it but whatever.
NUDITY FTW.
Why will they be mad though? How much is this class?
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penguini | March 31, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Fern! wait a while, then do the dreads. Longer hair = better. I suspect it’ll take more hair than anyone suspects.
My hair’s nearly waist length (my mum’s following me with scissors bargleargle) and what I want to do is cut the sides and dye/braid/possibly dread parts of mane that’ll be left. But there’s this whole Getting A Job thingy and I’ve applied to a catering service (wtf, srsly) which means looking like a Fine Upstanding Citizen At All Times. I’m also applying to work on a local farm, which is awesome because I’ve know the owners for years and I’m basically a shoe in for it so after I establish myself as a Fine Upstanding Citizen, I can destroy my hair and no one’ll notice.
Also, pretty much everyone told me to get dreads after the hair braiding thing which I am doing again because that was so much fun.
I feel like I’m rambling. It appears I’ve forgotten how to be coherent.
Mel- beat them with the cluebat?
clothes? what is this clothes thing?
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Fiddler | March 31, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Being a Fine Upstanding Citizen is totally overrated. Go have fun destroying your hair.
I’m waiting until at least May, so that’s maybe something like an inch more than it is now. Currently have layers that are about 5 to 7 inches long all over my head.
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Fiddler | March 31, 2011 at 1:16 pm
P.S.
The clothes thing they’re talking about is this dumb mainstream thing.
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Fortune Cell | April 1, 2011 at 7:49 am
Re: photography
I think it’s because anyone with a camera can call themselves a ~photographer~. Hell, anyone with a decent phone can take photos. So it’s a very accessible hobby that lets you look artistic without a lot of hassle compared to, say, painting or learning a musical instrument. That isn’t to say that some photography isn’t a skill people can get really excellent at, or anything, just that it’s easy to half-ass.
Re: dreads
They’re a big pain in the ass, look pretty stupid on white people, and people will think you’re holding. Also they can mold.
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Axa | April 1, 2011 at 10:54 am
SHIT YALL CLASS SCHEDULES ARE UP
I HOPE THIS IS NOT A JOKE
SCHEMING AND PLOTTING FOR NEXT SEMESTER BEGINS NOW
also one of my friends (good acquaintance sorta) is ENGAGED and i thought she was kidding because it’s april fools but GIRL IS SERIOUS
SOOOOOOO STRANGE
TRIPPIN BAWLZ OMMMMGGGGGGG
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Axa | April 2, 2011 at 12:22 pm
so on a scale of “are you fucking kidding me” to “SHIT BRO THAT’S AWESOME” , what is everyone’ opinion of getting a LotR tattoo?
JUST WONDERING
i could get some bombass runes you guys…RUNES
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ebeth | April 3, 2011 at 12:54 am
could be super tacky, could be super awesome. my advice would be don’t make it something from the movies, make it something from the books. if it was in the movies it’s probably too obvious to be really awesome tattoo material
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Kagcomix | April 2, 2011 at 5:46 pm
axa- depends on what it was. If it was like your whole back as a pictoral representation of all three books I’d say “are you fucking kidding me” but if it was something tastefull (so not a legolas portrait tramp stamp) I’d say “neato, buddy”. Now I’m thinking of the worst posible LotR tatoos ever.
penguini- that hair sounds awesome.
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ebeth | April 3, 2011 at 1:00 am
RHPS: awesome
going to waffle house, realizing they don’t have enough room to hold us all, going back to campus and going to sloopy’s instead: awesome
going to cvs afterwards to get gummies: awesome
drawback: i keep forgetting that i’m dressed like a hooker and then people give me Looks and i don’t know why
and then someone has to explain it to me and i feel like a dumbass xP
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Fiddler | April 3, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Re: LoTR tattoo:
I’m not really a LoTR fan, so I can’t really be all FUCK YEAH, but I’d say if you kept it tasteful/meaningful/discreet/whatever like you would any tattoo, then go for it if you wish, it could be awesome.
I think if I were to get a tattoo (any kind) it would have to be something I really connected with. Right now if I were to get one I’m thinking an interrobang or something. I’m trying to decide whether it would be a good idea or horribly cliche.
Re: Dressing Like A Hooker:
EBOO I WOULD CHECK YOU OUT EVEN IF YOU WEREN’T DRESSED LIKE A HOOKER. But why are you dressed that way? And since you are, why aren’t you in my bed?
I had a fantastic weekend. Unfortunately Pip had to leave today, and now my eyes are tired from crying, but it’s okay. It was a great visit.
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Jadestone | April 3, 2011 at 8:14 pm
LotR tatto: get “speak friend and enter” in elvish as a tramp stamp
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Mel | April 4, 2011 at 1:57 am
GENIUS.
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ebeth | April 4, 2011 at 5:28 am
oh god this
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Axa | April 4, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I LOVE YOU THE MOST
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Lizzie | April 4, 2011 at 12:19 pm
http://www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=8935#comment-410719
I love it when people younger than me get all worldly and “KIDS TODAY”
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Captain Fantastic | April 4, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Why bother even reading that stuff anymore?
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Fiddler | April 4, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Lizzie~ To be fair, I’m pretty sure UP is at least 17. Yes, she’s younger than you, but she’s not a complete munchkin. She’s also speaking as someone who is aware of her youth and follies.
In other news, all I’ve done today has been vacuum stinkbugs. ALL DAY. And they’re still everywhere. FML.
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Lizzie | April 4, 2011 at 3:20 pm
I think she’s 18. I just think it’s funny because suddenly in the past few months her posts have become ZOMG I AM GRADUATING I AM AN ADULT. And because I’ve definitely been there at every age I’ve ever been.
boo stinkbugs.
FS – Because I enjoy it.
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Fiddler | April 6, 2011 at 10:15 am
Eh, whatever.
I actually feel younger the older I get.
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Mel | April 6, 2011 at 10:52 am
Yeaaaaah, I’mma just slide in to pull the Age Card, because I can rarely do that in real life.
-pretends to be an adult or something-